Yeah...I mean, what can I say? You are totally right. The government did take the experience and turn it into panic. I didn't know there *wasn't* great panic at the time it happened, though. But the fact that the state it happened to, went so predominantly for Kerry? Yeah.
Maybe there was more of a panic elsewhere for all I know. It would prove my point, really, because the thing about being here is you could see the reality and react to that instead of just letting your imagination run wild: there's the smoke over there, so let's all walk this way. Here are hundreds of flyers of actual people who went missing. I am not on them and for that I should just feel lucky. I can smell the burning of the remains: that was close. Phew.
It's probably the only time in my life I've felt the kind of fear I did feel, with the military planes overhead. You did feel like you were waiting for something to drop on you from the sky. But then you got over that, as people do. People have lived under far worse conditions, and you weren't alone. But maybe you're right and in other places it was just something in their imagination that they could fit to conform to their own fears.
This kind of nationalism does seem ridiculous to me too, maybe especially because I have gotten used to the lj community which is so international. You don't really bond with people because they're from the same country with the same background. Sometimes the people who seem more like you are from across the world, so the idea of breaking things down along country lines seems a strange idea.
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Date: 2004-11-05 02:16 pm (UTC)Maybe there was more of a panic elsewhere for all I know. It would prove my point, really, because the thing about being here is you could see the reality and react to that instead of just letting your imagination run wild: there's the smoke over there, so let's all walk this way. Here are hundreds of flyers of actual people who went missing. I am not on them and for that I should just feel lucky. I can smell the burning of the remains: that was close. Phew.
It's probably the only time in my life I've felt the kind of fear I did feel, with the military planes overhead. You did feel like you were waiting for something to drop on you from the sky. But then you got over that, as people do. People have lived under far worse conditions, and you weren't alone. But maybe you're right and in other places it was just something in their imagination that they could fit to conform to their own fears.
This kind of nationalism does seem ridiculous to me too, maybe especially because I have gotten used to the lj community which is so international. You don't really bond with people because they're from the same country with the same background. Sometimes the people who seem more like you are from across the world, so the idea of breaking things down along country lines seems a strange idea.